Compile the latest Vim 8.0 on CentOS 7

Compile the latest Vim 8.0 on CentOS 7

Remove the existing vim if you have already installed it:

# yum list installed | grep -i vim

vim-common.x86_64                    2:7.4.160-1.el7                @base
vim-enhanced.x86_64                  2:7.4.160-1.el7                @base
vim-filesystem.x86_64                2:7.4.160-1.el7                @base
vim-minimal.x86_64                   2:7.4.160-1.el7                @anaconda

# yum remove vim-enhanced vim-common vim-filesystem

Note: You do not need to remove vim-minimal because sudo depends on it.

For Red Hat/CentOS users:

# yum install gcc make ncurses ncurses-devel
# yum git
# yum install ruby ruby-devel lua lua-devel luajit \
luajit-devel ctags python python-devel \
python3 python3-devel tcl-devel \
perl perl-devel perl-ExtUtils-ParseXS \
perl-ExtUtils-XSpp perl-ExtUtils-CBuilder \
perl-ExtUtils-Embed

or

# yum clean all
# yum grouplist
# yum groupinfo "Development Tools"
# yum groupinstall "Development tools"
# yum install ncurses ncurses-devel

For debian/Ubuntu users:

# apt-get remove vim vim-runtime vim-tiny vim-common

# apt-get install libncurses5-dev libgnome2-dev libgnomeui-dev \
libgtk2.0-dev libatk1.0-dev libbonoboui2-dev \
libcairo2-dev libx11-dev libxpm-dev libxt-dev python-dev \
python3-dev ruby-dev git

# apt-get install libncurses5-dev python-dev libperl-dev ruby-dev liblua5.2-dev

// Fix liblua paths
# ln -s /usr/include/lua5.2 /usr/include/lua
# ln -s /usr/lib/x86_64-linux-gnu/liblua5.2.so /usr/local/lib/liblua.so

If you want to install the optional packages With yum groupinstall command:

# vim /etc/yum.conf

group_package_types=default, mandatory, optional

Note: the default setting is default, mandatory.

Install ctags and cscope:

# yum install ctags cscope

Build vim:

# cd /usr/local/src

Download vim source (it is better to get it from GitHub because you can get all the latest patches from there):

# git clone https://github.com/vim/vim.git
# cd vim
or
# wget ftp://ftp.vim.org/pub/vim/unix/vim-7.4.tar.bz2
# tar -xjf vim-7.4.tar.bz2
# cd vim74

Show the configuration options:

# ./configure --help

Configure:

# ./configure --prefix=/usr --with-features=huge --enable-multibyte --enable-rubyinterp --enable-pythoninterp --enable-perlinterp --enable-luainterp --enable-cscope

Build:

# make
or
# make VIMRUNTIMEDIR=/usr/share/vim/vim74

# make install

re-hash the environment:

# hash -r

Check vim version:

# vim --version | less

VIM - Vi IMproved 7.4 (2013 Aug 10, compiled Jul 24 2016 14:27:26)
Included patches: 1-2102
...
+lua +multi_byte +perl +python +ruby

Check vim patches:

# vim

:echo has("patch-7.4-2102")

1

Reference:

https://github.com/Valloric/YouCompleteMe/wiki/Building-Vim-from-source

https://gist.github.com/holguinj/11064609

http://www.fullybaked.co.uk/articles/installing-latest-vim-on-centos-from-source

http://www.vim.org/git.php